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Old Nov 4, 2010, 2:20 am
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The debris fell on Batam which is very close to SIN airport, so it occured shortly after takeoff ... well before any chance of volcanic ash being encountered.

Looking at the damage and the video of the fire engines after landing, the damage is quite extensive, well beyond the number 2 engine. For example the number 1 engine was foamed and watered by the fire engines, presumably due to lack of response to shutdown commands after landing ... maybe due to damage to control functions in the wing. The landing looks to have been gravity deployed for the landing gear (due to loss of hydraulics from the damage when the high-pressure turbine disk disintegrated). Quite lucky that the pax cabin wasn't penetrated, might have lost quite a few pax otherwise. Amazing how quickly high quality video including the right angles makes it out onto the web these days.....

No wonder QF has the fleet grounded, this looks to be one of the worst engine failure incidents yet (in decades). Wonder when SQ will ground theirs?
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